They all said, “The Monster is here! The Monster is Here! All our lives we have prepared to defend against monsters. But now, suddenly, we have found out that the Monster is already here — and he’s been here for years!

“And what’s worse, he isn’t like any monster we expected.

“Nobody knows what the monster is.

Nobody even knows enough to see him.”

“It sounds like a job,” they said, “for The World’s Greatest Detective.”

So they called in The World’s Greatest Detective and began to tell him what they knew about the monster.

As they did, the World’s Greatest Detective made mental pictures of what he heard.

They said, “The Monster consumes natural resources,” and this is what the World’s Greatest Detective saw in his mind: